Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/22

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Subject: [Leica] 4/3 sensitivity
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:23:47 -0700
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Since everything is NOT equal, you can't compare. If you want to see
if the EP-1 is what you need, there's really nothing like read the
reviews and then taking it for a test drive.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:
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> I have an Olympus 5-500 with an 8 MP sensor. The new EP-1 has a 12.3 MP 
> sensor. Since all the digital camera literature touts pixel size as the 
> key to sensitivity, does the 1.5 times larger pixel size of the E-500 mean 
> that it is more sensitive than the EP-1. Everything else being equal, of 
> course.
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